‘Angels in America’ coming to The Stanley in Utica

UTICA >> “Angels in America – Part One: Millennium Approaches,” a Pulitzer Prizewinning play written by internationally acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner, comes to the Stanley stage on April 5.

Actors from across the Central New York region have joined local director and regional theatre production company owner, Alessandro Trinca, in bringing “Angels in America” to three upstate New York cities this spring, including a performance on April 12 at Syracuse University.

“‘Angels in America is a wonderfully written and extremely powerful piece’,” Trinca said. “I am extremely proud of this production and feel it has a great deal of relevance in today’s world especially with recent movies like Dallas Buyers Club generating a great deal of buzz and winning multiple awards. Angels in America falls into a similar vein of lost souls, whose stories are brought together by reality to create bonds of love, hate, loss and loneliness to overcome abandonment and ultimately discover forgiveness.”

Set in Reagan Era New York City in 1985, the play follows the lives of Louis Ironson, a neurotic gay Jew and his long-term partner Prior Walter, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant diagnosed with AIDS. Their stories intersect with the lives of Joe Pitt, a closeted homosexual Mormon and Republican law clerk, and his Valium-addicted, agoraphobic and hallucinating wife, Harper. They are all, in one way or another, affected by the actions and will of Roy Cohn, a McCarthy-ist lawyer and selfloathing, power-hungry, HIV-positive hypocrite; Joe’s conservative Mormon and deeply unsympathetic mother Hannah; Belize, former drag-queen and Prior’s best friend; and, of course, The Angel, commanding Prior to become a prophet.

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